§8711 Sense of Congress on Enforcement of Multilateral Sanctions Regime and Expansion and Implementation of Sanctions Laws

Summary

The United States must use strong economic penalties, diplomacy, and military planning and options to stop Iran from trying to get a nuclear weapon or doing other dangerous things. That aim lines up with President Obama’s 2012 statement that the U.S. will prevent Iran from getting a nuclear weapon and will keep all options open. Congress says act fast to enforce current international sanctions and to fully carry out the new sanctions in this law. The President and top officials, including the Secretaries of the Treasury and State and senior intelligence leaders, should watch the situation more closely. The government should use emergency economic powers when needed, give more staff and money to the Treasury, State, and Commerce Departments and to intelligence agencies, and work more with other countries. Congress urges quick consideration of extra sanctions on energy services, insurance and reinsurance, shipping, and Iranian banks that act as middlemen. It also calls for stepping up efforts to stop people and companies from dodging sanctions, including watching telecom, internet, and satellite providers, other banks or agencies not yet sanctioned, and continuously checking Iran’s energy, security, financial, and telecom sectors to find and fix any gaps.